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Rod Beckstrom took over as ICANN President/CEO on July 1, 2009, so October 9 marked his 100 th day in office--and a good opportunity to examine the progress made by ICANN during his short tenure. Of course, the ICANN community (Board, staff and stakeholders) deserve credit for their hard work prior to Rod's appointment, which made ICANN's recent achievements possible. But to borrow an analogy from American football: when you have the ball in the Red Zone, you need to score touchdowns, not fi

Rod Beckstrom New ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom has responded to the concerns regarding additional gTLDs raised by two of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee’s top Republicans, Lamar Smith and Howard Coble, saying that “the new gTLD policy development is the very type of process that the United States government envisioned, supported and encouraged through three presidential administrations.” In the detailed letter , Beckstrom addressed the three key questions raised by the congressmen: Q

The main source of funding for Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) doesn’t get the attention it deserves. In my open letter to new ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom, I made made a key point with regards to domain registrants: “Remember that domain owners ultimately fund your organization. Registries and registrars merely funnel domain owners’ money to ICANN.” It’s a fairly simple idea, but here’s a flow chart. The orange line are registration fees. Registrants pay